TV favourites from your childhood

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Terrahawks
Captain Scarlet
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Monkey
The A Team
The Man from U.N.C.L.E

Edit - Forgot about Airwolf, Manimal and The Incredible Hulk too!! ("Don't make me angry, Mr McGee, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!")

Also used to watch Tarzan and Charlie Chan (not together, although that would have been an interesting programme!!) when my Dad got home from work.. he'd inevitably fall asleep about 2/3 of the way through and then swear blind that he hadn't.... even though he couldn't actually tell me what had happened at the end (he used to guess, based on what he'd seen to that point, and many were not too far wrong.... I used to think this was pretty clever, but now just recognise that the formulaic (sp?) design was probably quite predictable to him ).

Great stuff - much better than the crap that seems to be around for kids now.

 

[beanzontoast]

Not forgetting Barrier Reef from 1970.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nJ6X8J_EXeE

I'd almost forgotten this one, but the moment I read the title I thought of the word 'interlock' - wasn't there some computery thing on board and they had to sync it with the underwater equipment every other episode? Or have I made that up?

It's like when I was reading the ISIHAC 'Bible' the other day talking about BBC radio comedy and they mentioned Radio Prune. Instantly, the Radio Prune 'jingle' they played came back into my head - and I can't have heard it or thought about it since I was at junior school!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Spare a thought for Hanna-Barbera. Never up there with the quality of Warner Bros and others but some great shows for kids:

Top Cat
Yogi Bear
The Flintstones
Pixie and Dixie
The Jetsons
Hong King Phooey
Wacky Races
Scooby-Doo
Huckleberry Hound
Quick-Draw McGraw

Think that's most of the main ones we got. Lots voiced by the very wonderful Daws Butler, HB's answer to Mel Blanc.

 

[Dayvo]

Spare a thought for Hanna-Barbera. Never up there with the quality of Warner Bros and others but some great shows for kids:

Top Cat
Yogi Bear
The Flintstones
Pixie and Dixie
The Jetsons
Hong King Phooey
Wacky Races
Scooby-Doo
Huckleberry Hound
Quick-Draw McGraw

Good call, 3BM. And not forgetting Deputy Dawg and Secret Squirrell.

Lost in Space was a fave, too. Think I spent far too much time watching TV as a kid! And reading comics!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Most of the ones I used to like have been mentioned. I was particularly into sf and fantasy like The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Blake's 7, The Water Margin, and Monkey (of course - I have the whole box set - the only annoying thing about it is that it doesn't have the original Japanese non-dubbed versions, which I would quite like to see now that I could understand them). I wasn't really that into cartoons, but I did also used to like Battle of the Planets, which was actually a massively messed-up and redubbed version of a Japanese anime series, Gatchaman.

No-one's mentioned the original Survivors, or Battlestar Galactica yet, or The Tripods which was excellent but never finished because one of the cast-members was tragically killed in a road accident (I think). Or my all-time favourite series, which was The Changes - surely someone else remembers that... post-apocalyptic British thing, with kids.

There were also quite a lot of, I think, ITV, drama series on Saturday (or was it Sunday) tea-time, which were often a bit weird. I seem to remember one that featured a man and his son who came to Britain from (?)Poland, and there were odd goings-on in a church, but I could have dreamed it all...

 

[Arch]

Spare a thought for Hanna-Barbera. Never up there with the quality of Warner Bros and others but some great shows for kids:

Top Cat
Yogi Bear
The Flintstones
Pixie and Dixie
The Jetsons
Hong King Phooey
Wacky Races
Scooby-Doo
Huckleberry Hound
Quick-Draw McGraw

Think that's most of the main ones we got. Lots voiced by the very wonderful Daws Butler, HB's answer to Mel Blanc.

Oh yes. And you know what I liked, almost best, about them? At the very end of the credits there was a tiny thumbnail sketch of all the characters in that cartoon. I liked that tiny drawing.

 

[MontyVeda]

I finally found out the name of an old kids show I liked...

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...and it's got an awesome theme tune!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Anything with a cool sounding theme tune did it for me! :

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And, of course :

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I was a right couch potato as a kid, so I have far to many favorites to mention

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

'70s cool:

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Ok, so this isn't the actual theme tune, but I like it anyway!

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[Mad Doug Biker]

Utter cheese!

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And Gold!:

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[Mad Doug Biker]

A few of the more gentler ones:

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[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh yes and here is a song from Pigeon Street

'Long Distance Clara? Well, she could drive across the Sahara!':

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And other transport related one:

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And so on.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If your School Sports Day had been on the telly!:

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The late Roy Castle everybody!:

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[Mad Doug Biker]

You might not have liked the programme, but this is certainly WORTH seeing!!

Just think of the time, effort and, yes, dedication that went into doing that, and all for a noble cause (Childhood Cancer) I have to point out, not just for the world record.

Enjoy!:

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Its Stephen Roche everyone!:

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and, with a 'Typical Frenchman's bike':

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[Mad Doug Biker]

Nae Health And Safety here!:

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